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Fundamentals - IAM + EC2 Flashcards

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What is an AZ?

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Availablility zone
One or more discrete data centres with redundant power, networking and connectivity
Separate from one another - isolated from disasters
Connected by high bandwidth low latency optic fibre

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What is IAM?

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Identity and access management
Users - physical people
Groups - departments
Roles - applications

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What is SSH?

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Secure shell connection on AWS

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What are security groups?

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Control inbound and outbound traffic of EC2 machine
Can be attached to multiple instances
Locked down to a region/VPC combination
Default block all traffic in, allow all all traffic out

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What is cloud computing?

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on-demand delivery of IT resources over the Internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Instead of buying, owning, and maintaining physical data centers and servers, you can access technology services, such as computing power, storage, and databases, on an as-needed basis from a cloud provider like Amazon Web Services (AWS)

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What are the advantages of the cloud?

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Agility - easy access to a broad range of technologies
Elasticity - don’t have to over provision, can scale up or down instantly
Cost savings - trade capital expenses for variable expenses
Go global in minutes - expand to new geographic regions and deplouy globally

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What are the types of cloud computing?

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Infrastructure as a service - basic building blocks for cloud IT, highest level of flexibility
Platform as a service - focus on deployment and management of your application
Software as a service - completed product that is run and managed by the service provider

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What are the cloud computing deployment models?

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Cloud
Hybrid
On-prem

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What are the benefits of AWS Security?

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Keep your data safe
Meet compliance requirements
Save money
Scale quickly

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What is a regions?

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A physical location in the world where we have multiple AZ

Greatest possible fault tolerance and stability

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What is an AZ?

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One or more discrete data centers, each with redundant power, networking and connectivity housed in separate facilities - independent failure zone
Connected through low-latency links
uninterruptible power supply and onsite backup generation facilities

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What is the AWS Management Console?

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Simplified and intuitive user interface

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What is the CLI?

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Unified tool to manage your AWS services - can automate them through scripts

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What is the SDK?

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API tailored to your programming language or platform

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15
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What is Amazon Athena?

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interactive query service that makes it easy to analyse data in Amazon S2 using SQL
Serverless
Integrated with AWS Glue Data Catalog

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16
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What is Amazon EMR?

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Managed Hadoop framework that makes it easy fast and cost effective to process vast amounts of data across dynamically scalable Amazon EC2 instances

17
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What is Amazon CloudSearch?

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Simple and cost-effective to set up manage and scale a search solution for your website or application

18
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What Amazon Elasticsearch Service?

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easy to deploy secure operate and scale elasticsearch to search analyse visualise data in real-time

19
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What is Amazon Kinesis?

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collect, process, and analyse real-time streaming data

20
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What is Amazon Redshift?

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fast, scalable data warehouse that makes it simple and cost-effective to analyse all your data across your data warehouse and data lake

21
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What is Amazon QuickSight?

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fast, cloud-powered business intelligence (BI) service that makes it easy for you to deliver insights to everyone in your own organisation

22
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What is AWS Data Pipeline?

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Process and move data between different AWS compute and storage services, on-premise data sources at specified intervals

23
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What is AWS Glue?

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fully managed extract, transform and load (ETL) service that makes it easy to prepare and load their data for analytics

24
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What is AWS Lake Formation?

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easy to set up and secure data lake in days

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What is Amazon MSK?

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Managed streaming for Kafka - easy to build and run applications that use Apache Kafka to process streaming data

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